Kelly Richardson
Kelly Richardson (born August 2, 1972 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian artist who is one of the leading representatives of a new generation of artists working with digital technologies to create hyper-real, highly charged landscapes, alongside figures such as John Gerrard and Saskia Olde Wolbers. [1]
Early life and education
Richardson was born in Burlington, Ontario and at the age of 6 was relocated to Guelph, Ontario where she grew up, later attending high school at the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute. From 1994–1997, she studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, Canada where she continued to reside practicing and exhibiting both nationally and internationally at various venues including Hallwalls, Mercer Union, Art Gallery of Ontario and Centre Georges Pompidou. In 2002, she relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for her Master of Fine Arts in Media Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. In 2003, she moved to the United Kingdom taking up residence in the northeast where she also completed her masters at Newcastle University.
Career
Kelly Richardson is one of the leading representatives of a new generation of artists working with digital technologies to create hyper-real and highly charged landscapes.[2] Her practice centres around video and photography which often employs a high standard of special effect, mixing real footage with digitally constructed elements. Her work "adopts the use of cinematic language to investigate notions of constructed environments and the blurring of the real versus the unreal. She creates contemplative spaces which offer visual metaphors for the sensations associated with the hugely complicated world we have created for ourselves, magnificent and equally dreadful."[3] As David Jager noted in Canadian Art magazine,[4]
Richardson deploys a formidable range of techniques and a broad palette of approaches in her creation of a new aesthetic, one that elicits a euphoric suspension of disbelief, allowing viewers to delve into the increasingly ambiguous and complex juncture between the real and the represented. She has transformed video, once a self-consciously minimal, anti-cinematic, bare-bones practice, into something much richer, and much stranger.
Richardson has been widely acclaimed in North America, Asia and Europe. Her work was selected for the Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale, and major moving image exhibitions including 'The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image' at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, USA) and Caixaforum (Barcelona, Spain), 'Videosphere: A New Generation' at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, USA) and 'Visions Fugitives' at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France). Her video installations have been included in the Toronto International Film Festival as part of 'Future Projections' (2012), Sundance Film Festival in 'New Frontier' (2011 and 2009) and in 2009, she was honoured as the featured artist at the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards. Richardson's work has been acquired by major museums across the USA and Canada, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Albright-Knox Art Gallery to the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and Art Gallery of Ontario.[5]
In 2012, a 15-year retrospective exhibition of her work entitled 'Legion' was organised by and premiered at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in England. The retrospective then toured to the Grundy Art Gallery (UK), Towner (UK) and Albright-Knox Art Gallery (USA).[6]
Biography
Selected exhibitions
- Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, "Mariner 9", Vienna, Austria (2014)
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, "Kelly Richardson: Legion" (retrospective), Eastbourne, UK (2013)
- Towner, "Legion" (retrospective), Eastbourne, UK (2013)
- Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, "Legion" (retrospective), Sunderland, UK (2012)
- Le Fresnoy, "Visions Fugitives", Tourcoing, France (2012)
- Albright-Knox, "Videosphere: A New Generation", Buffalo, New York (2011)
- Artpace, "Leviathan", San Antonio, Texas (2011)
- Art Gallery of Ontario, "Sculpture as Time: Major works. New Acquisitions", Toronto, Canada (2010)
- Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier on Main, Park City, Utah, USA (2009)
- Beijing 798 Biennale, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Beijing, China (2009)
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, Washington, DC, USA (2008)
- Busan Biennale, Expenditure, Busan, South Korea (2008)
- HALLWALLS, The Edge of Everything, Buffalo, New York, USA (2008)
- Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Exiles of the Shattered Star, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2007)
- Gwangju Biennale, A grain of dust, a drop of water, Busan, South Korea (2004)
Public collections
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Towner, Eastbourne, UK
Video installations
- 2013-2014, Orion Tide (dual-channel high definition video, 20 minute seamless loop, 32' x 9')
- 2013-2014, The Last Frontier (single channel video installation, 20 minute seamless loop, 16:9)
- 2012, Mariner 9 (triple-channel high definition video, 20 minute seamless loop, 43' x 9')
- 2007-2012, The Great Destroyer (multi-channel high definition video, 15 minute loop)
- 2011, Leviathan (single/triple-channel high definition video, 20 minute loop, 16:9)
- 2010, The Erudition (single/triple-channel high definition video, 20 minute loop, 16:9)
- 2008, Twilight Avenger (single-channel high definition video, 5 minute 40 second loop, 16:9)
- 2007, Wagons Roll (originally produced in 2003 and remade in 2007, single-channel video, 24 minute loop, 16:9)
- 2007, Forest Park (dual-channel high definition video, 18 minute loop, 16:9)
- 2006, Exiles of the Shattered Star (single-channel high definition video, 30 minute loop, 16:9)
- 2005, Ferman Drive (single-channel video, 1 minute 20 second loop, 4:3)
- 2004, The Sequel (single-channel video, 1 minute loop, 4:3)
- 2001, A car stopped at a stopsign, in the middle of nowhere, in front of a landscape (single-channel video, 30 minute loop, 4:3)
- 2001, There's a lot There (single-channel video, 2 minute loop, 4:3)
- 2001, Camp (single-channel video, 2 minute loop, 4:3)
- 1998, Glow (single-channel video, loop, 4:3)
External links
Further reading
- Exhibition essay for Mercer Union, May-June 2000
- Description for Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition, Nov. 2002-March 2003
- Gwangju Biennale documentation, 2004
- Curatorial essay for Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Feb.-May 2005
- Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal exhibition documentation, Sept. 6 - Oct. 21 2007
- Now Magazine review, 'Nature's Calling: Kelly Richardson questions what's real', August 6-13, 2008
- ARTFORUM, 'Kelly Richardson: Birch Libralato', November issue, 2008
- Now Magazine review, 'Year in Review: Top 10 Art Shows', December 22-29, 2008
- Screening Video exhibition text, 'Kelly Richardson', March 6-April 26, 2009
- Canadian Art Magazine feature, 'Kelly Richardson: The Radiant Real', Fall issue, 2009
- Akimblog press release, 2010
- Toronto Star review, 'Whyte: The world rendered as an alien landscape', December 22, 2010
- Akimblog review, "The Last Frontier", January 10, 2011
- Canadian Art Magazine review, 'The Last Frontier: Natural Histories', January 13, 2011
- Plaza de Armas review, 'Landscape, catfight, and another musical', March 25, 2011
- Glasstire review, 'Artpace 11.1: It's in the water', April 12, 2011
- ...might be good review, 'International Artist-in-Residence, New Works: 11.1', April 15, 2011
- KYEO.TV, "Interview: Kelly Richardson", June 27, 2012
- Corridor8 review, "Kelly Richardson: LEGION at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland", July 8, 2012
- The Guardian, "NASA technology helps get video art off the ground", August 3, 2012
- Huffington Post, "Artist Kelly Richardson's 'Marine 9' Depicts Futuristic Mars Landscape On Day NASA's Curiosity Lands", August 6, 2012
- The Guardian, "Artist Kelly Richardson brings a taste of Mars to Whitley Bay", August 7, 2012
- This Is Tomorrow review, "Kelly Richardson: Mariner 9 and Legion", August 20, 2012
- New Scientist, "A desolate vision of the future of Mars exploration", August 30, 2012
- Canadian Art, "Kelly Richardson Talks Sci-Fi Futures, Life On Mars And Mariner 9", October 4, 2012
- Artes Magazine, "New York’s White Box Gallery Held Ground-Breaking Contemporary Art Exhibition", January 15, 2013
- Photomonitor interview, "Kelly Richardson: Legion", March 2013
- Photomonitor review, "Kelly Richardson: Legion and The Erudition", March 2013
References
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- Jager, David. "Kelly Richardson: The Radiant Real". Canadian Art Magazine. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
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